Should Alexander hard drop highest item level gear?

[Nominous]

Players farming/downing FCoB already show off the fact that they have with their Dreadwyrm gear and weapons. That is what they call their own. If they want more prestige let them run Savage SCoB for their titles and greater epeen.

I disagree with your sentiment that those things can be considered, "Their own" when I see a good portion of the community with said things. But I'll move on.

The idea I was trying to convey, was that there's quite enough content that caters to the general populous. It's available to everyone, gives rewards to everyone, and is completed by anyone with a moderate amount of free time. Again, everyone deserves content that is enjoyable to them, so there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But when you consider the fact that there are some people who are more skilled, and do want a greater challenge, they have every right to want greater incentive for performing on greater levels. And why withhold those 'Greater' rewards from them? Savage will be available to every player. Anyone who wants it can rise to the challenge, if they want it so bad.

This is honestly such basic video game design, I can't understand people being so upset with it. You want the best ending to a game? Sometimes you have to go through a ton of hoops to get there. You want the coolest costumes? You might have to fight a secret boss that requires a ton of work to unlock. You want the best skills, you might have to go through Sphere 211 to find the skill manuals. The same applies here. If you want the best gear in the game, you fight the most challenging content in the game.

A question to throw out: If you can faceroll everything in the gear from story mode and tomes outside of savage, and have no interest in doing savage, why do you need gear the same as savage if you can already face roll everything you are interested in anyways?

And this is what I've been saying the whole time. 100% agree with this statement. If you aren't interested in Savage, the normal mode's gear will be serviceable in every other area of the game.

[SDaemon]

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And yet the Dreadwyrm gear and weapons are exclusive to FCoB so it is their own. Seeing a good portion of the community with said things (Dreadwyrm gear) is so far from the truth its funny. What would you consider a good portion? When only a small fraction of the XIV community has touched FCoB.